Emojis and Selfies: Texting with DJs from the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

Unfortunately, no dick pics.

November 8, 2013, 2:20am

Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival happens November 8-10 at a selection of Williamsburg's best venues. Find out all about it here. Join THUMP on Sunday, November 10 at Glasslands with Kaytranada, Jerome LOL, Groundislava and Jubilee.

The sixth Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival (henceforth called BEMF, because goddamn what a mouthful) kicks off tonight in—where else?—Williamsburg. Over the next four days, every single music venue in the neighborhood will be packed with back-to-back sets by UK superstars like Pete Tong and John Digweed, heavy bass gods like Skream and Sinden, and a veritable buffet of underground heroes both old and new, including DJ Sliink, Oneohtrix Point Never, xxxy, and Actress.

Two things could happen: North 6th Street, where all of the venues are centered on or around, will turn into a veritable shitshow of epic proportions, and we will all glimpse the future of when Williamsburg manifests its destiny as the center of the douchebag club universe (AKA Meatpacking 2.0). Or, if the gods are good and shower us with blessings, the neighborhood will be filled with irie vibes, strangers will join hands to the sound of sweet synths, and nary a "Sex Drugs Sluts Molly" T-shirt will be seen. We can only pray.

Anyway, I managed to get the personal phone numbers for a dozen of the DJs who've already descended in our fine neighborhood. And instead of asking them boring questions like, "What are you planning to play later?" or "Who are your biggest inspirations?" I decided to fire off three diferent missives off the top of my head just to see what they would send back.

Here are the responses from local heros MANIK and Jubilee, as well as the "father of Detroit techno in the Netherlands" Steve Rachmad, who were kind enough to respond right away.

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